04-20-2020 , 03:34 PM
Quote: Cloudflare launched Is BGP safe yet recently that provides Internet users with a test to find out whether their Internet Service Provider (ISP) has implemented a certification system to make BGP safer to use.
All it takes is to open the website and click on the "test your ISP" button to run a quick test that determines whether the ISP has implemented the certification system RPKI.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a core Internet protocol that is used to determine the route that data takes on the Internet.
One of the issues associated with the protocol is that the possibility of hijacking exists.
A basic example would be that traffic from a user in the United States would go through servers in Asia to access the New York Times website.
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